gourd vegetables

Bittergourd(Pavakkai)
Nutrients: Increases production of Polypeptide insulin
Good for: Diabetes patients
Avoid for: People taking other allopathy medicines. Reduces the impact of medicines. If eaten often, reduces potency of male.
Benefits: Prevents contagious diseases. Kills worms, germs. Prevents worms in stomach.

Ridge Guard(Peerkangai)
Nutrients: Mineral salts and water.
Avoid for: Everybody in the night. Avoid at all times if you have cold, cough, headache. Will create sinus.
Benefits: Cools the body.

Bottle gourd(sorakkai)
Nutrients: Protein, Calcium, water
Good for: Everybody in the daytime only
Avoid for: People with cold
Benefits: Strengthens heart. Improves blood circulation and (thathu balam?). Activates male potency.

Ivy Gourd(Kovakkai)
Nutrients: Vitamin A
Good for: Diabetes
Benefits: Treats Mouth infections, Stomach ailments, tongue blisters

Snake gourd (pudalangai)
Nutrients: Life enhancing proteins, vitamin A, Calcium, phosporous(kandhakam??)
Good for: Piles
Avoid for: Asthma, joint problem, headache, cold, fever, Itchy/scratchy/Pain
Benefits: If eaten often, reduces weight

Ash Gourd (poosanikkai)
Nutrients: Protein, Fat
Good for: Children. Very good for Piles(moolasoodu)
Avoid for: Asthma, headache, sinus, obese people
Benefits: Strengthens nerves, Treats stomach ailments. Increases body weight. White ash guard is very good.